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Life-long struggle of 'stateless' Kenyans to get IDs

President William Ruto opens the Jitume Digital Hub at Mandera TVET, and Mandera KMTC on his first day of a four-day visit to North Eastern Kenya.[FILE.]

Like many members of the ethnic-Somali community in Kenya, 60-year-old Abdi Khalif Aden has never had a national ID despite multiple attempts to get one.

Aden has been clinging on to his uncle's identification card as the only thing that offers some tentative proof he was born in Kenya.

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